Advanced Materials Equipment
The facilities at the IALR are well suited for biochemistry and polymer chemistry work with the following equipment:
Polymer – Analytical:
- TA Instruments Discovery DSC
- TA Instruments Discovery TGA
- TA Instruments Q800 DMA
- TA Instruments ARES LS2 Rheometer
- Instron tensile, compression, and 3-point bend testing frame with 50 kN load cell
- Tinius Olsen H5KT tensile and 3-point bend testing frame with 5 kN load cell
- Tinius Olsen impact tester
- Tinius Olsen specimen notcher
- MOCON OX-TRAN 2/21 for oxygen transfer rate
- Oakland Instrument RT-6000 film opacity meter
- Dynisco LMI D4001 melt flow index
- Dynisco limiting oxygen index chamber
- Dynisco hot tack sealer
- Malvern RH10 advanced capillary rheometer
- Alfa Mirage EW-300SG densimeter
- Mettler Toledo HB43-s moisture analyzer
- Sartorius Mark 3 moisture analyzer
- Lindberg Blue M box furnace (1100 °C)
- JASCO 6200 FT-IR with Pike MIRacle ATR attachment
- Nanosurf atomic force microscope
Polymer – Processing:
- DSM Xplore MC 15 Micro compounder
- Leistritz ZSE 18 twin screw extruder
- Leistritz Micro 27 twin screw extruder
- Wayne 1.25” single screw extruder for pelletizing, tubing, or rod extrusion
- Wayne 1” extruder with 2 additional 1” extruders for multilayered extrusion of cast films and blow
films - DSM Xplore IM 12 Micro molder
- Boy 22E 20 ton injection molder
- Krauss-Maffei CX series 80 ton injection molder
- Wabash G100H-18CX 100 ton compression molder
- Formech Compac Mini vacuum former
- Olsa Minilab 2.7 liter lab mixer
- IMS 8-tray bench oven for resin drying
- Novatec N-50R resin dryer
- Thermo Scientific 65.1L vacuum oven (x2)
- Rapid Solo 150 granulator
